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...Transfer students have never had to explain a missing identification card to Domna in Annenberg Hall and, to them, the term “proctor” means nothing more than an exam supervisor...
...established Germany as a high-wage, high-quality production center," said Michael Fichter, executive director of the Center for Labor Relations at the Free University of Berlin. "It is less able to deal with the segment of the market that doesn't fit that. The fact that companies are transferring jobs to other countries is an omen." Though membership soared after German reunification in 1990, IG Metall's long-term trend is downward. Between 1991 and 1997, the union lost a million members and is now down to about 2.7 million. Harmen Lehment, an economist at the Kiel Institute...
Although the Philadelphia school system has a bleak record for academic performance, a state panel’s decision to transfer control of 42 public schools to private organizations is the wrong remedy and threatens the mission of public education. The plan, approved last week by a bitterly divided Pennsylvania School Reform Commission, places 20 formerly-public schools under the power of the for-profit corporation Edison Schools Inc., five under the control of Temple University, three under the University of Pennsylvania and the remainder under four lesser-known organizations. These firms will exercise full control of school budgets...
...encouraged senators to support two alternatives bills—one sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinsten (D-Ca.) the other by Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)—that would ban reproductive cloning but allow somatic transfer techniques to be used for “therapeutic cloning...
Corlette said that she wasn’t aware of any Harvard researchers currently running afoul of the proposed law. However, stem cell research by Harvard scientists like Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton will ultimately require somatic cell transfer techniques to be put to therapeutic...